Verse 1

¹One day the great bowman took a chariot with five horses, swift, with two shafts, two wheels, one axle, three bamboo poles, five fastenings, ²one rein, one driver, one seat, two yoke-props, five weapons, seven coverings and five paces, ³and gear of gold. He mounted it in golden armour, with a quiver that never empties, and, lord of eleven armies, went to the forest of the five uplands. ⁴There, swollen with pride, his bow and arrows in hand, he hunted, greedy for that vice, and left behind his wife, who had not deserved it. ⁵Taking up the way of the demons, terrible in himself and without mercy, he killed with sharpened arrows, in the forests, the creatures that live in forests.